Century completes acquisition of Mississippi Rural Service Area (RSA) No. 2 Cellular System.

MONROE, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 1995--Century Telephone Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE NYSE

See: New York Stock Exchange Symbol: CTL See control key.

1. CTL - Checkout Test language.
2. CTL - Compiler Target Language.
3. CTL - Computational Tree Logic ) completed its previously announced acquisition of the Mississippi-2 RSA (1) (Rural Service Area) See MSA.

(2) (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) A highly secure cryptography method by RSA Security, Inc., Bedford, MA (www.rsa.com), a division of EMC Corporation since 2006. It uses a two-part key. nonwireline cellular operation headquartered in Tupelo.

Strategically located in northeastern Mississippi, the RSA is between Memphis, Tennessee For the ancient Egyptian capital, see .

Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just below the mouth of the Wolf River. , and Birmingham, Alabama, and has a population of 240,000.

Mississippi-2 is comprised of nine counties and ranks first in the state among RSAs in median household income The median household income is commonly used to provide data about geographic areas and divides households into two equal segments with the first half of households earning less than the median household income and the other half earning more. , population and population per square mile. It is also home to the 650-bed North Mississippi Medical Center which is Mississippi's largest hospital as well as the largest non-metropolitan hospital in the United States. More than 630 manufacturing companies have operations in the area with 18 Fortune 500 companies represented.

Century Telephone Enterprises, Inc., headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, is a diversified telecommunications company and is the 16th largest U.S. local exchange telephone company based on access lines and the 17th largest U.S. cellular telephone company based on owned population equivalents.

CONTACT: Century Telephone Enterprises, Inc., Monroe

R. Stewart Ewing, Jr., 318/388-9500

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